Analysis of The Hermit
Aleister Crowley 1875 (Leamington Spa) – 1947 (Hastings)
AN ATTACK ON BARBERCRAFT
[Dedicated to George Cecil Jones]
At last an end of all I hoped and feared!
Muttered the hermit through his elfin beard.
Then what art thou? the evil whisper whirred.
I doubt me soerly if the hermit heard.
To all God's questions never a word he said,
But simply shook his venerable head.
God sent all plagues; he laughed and heeded not,
Till people certified him insane.
But somehow all his fellow-luntaics
Began to imitate his silly ticks.
And stranger still, their prospects so enlarged
That one by one the patients were discharged.
God asked him by what right he interfered;
He only laughed and into his elfin beard.
When God revealed Himself to mortal prayer
He gave a fatal opening to Voltaire.
Our Hermi had dispensed with Sinai's thunder,
But on the other hand he made no blunder;
He knew ( no doubt) that any axiom
Would furnish bricks to build some Donkeydom.
But!-all who urged that hermit to confess
Caught the infection of his happiness.
I would it were my fate to dree his weird;
I think that I will grow an elfin beard.
Scheme | A B AA AA AA AX BX AA AA CC DD EE XX AA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111 100011101 1111111101 1001011101 1111010101 111110101 11110100111 1101110001 1111110101 11010101 1111101 011101101 0101110101 1111010001 111111101 11010011101 1101011101 11010100101 1011011110 11010111110 1111110100 11011111 1111110101 1001011100 1110111111 1111111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,041 |
Words | 193 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 14 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 60 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 06, 2023
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